The clock of horror
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The clock of horror |
| Original title | La casa nel tempo |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1989 |
| length | 80 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lucio Fulci |
| script |
Gianfranco Clerici , Daniele Stroppa |
| music | Vince tempera |
| camera | Sebastiano Celeste |
| cut | Alberto Moriani |
| occupation | |
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The clock of horror (original title: La casa nel tempo , international title: The House of Clocks ) is an Italian horror film produced for television by director Lucio Fulci from 1989.
The film was originally released by the Italian broadcaster Reteitalia (today: Mediaset ) and the Italian film production company Dania Film as part of the loosely linked film series "Le case maledette", which includes works such as The House of Evil and Ghosthouse 3 - House of Lost Souls and Ghosthouse 4 - House of Witches by director Umberto Lenzi includes, produced. Due to the depiction of violence, the genre production was not premiered on Italian television, but instead marketed directly on VHS.
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The elder Victor, a watch collector with a huge inventory of historical as well as contemporary exhibits, lives with his wife in a remote villa in a lonely area. The venerable property houses a large number of his clocks and is inhabited by the elderly couple, a one-eyed gardener Peter and the honest housekeeper Maria. Outwardly, however, the strange couple is keeping a terrible secret, namely the remains of their nephew and wife, which they carefully keep in a chapel under their house. Before doing this, they jointly killed their young relatives because, in their opinion, they were not reciprocating the affection shown by their wealthy relatives - they were only interested in their money. The strange couple was surprisingly unscrupulous and has been killing everyone who knows their secret, including Maria.
A short time later, a group of young friends decides to break into the villa of the well-known childless collector couple. They enter the house on false pretenses when the situation escalates and a scuffle finally breaks out. The youngsters kill the craftsman or gardener Peter and the old men in self-defense. With the death of the host, however, all the clocks in the house suddenly stop and start to run backwards. With the clocks, time runs inexorably backwards. However, since they cannot leave the property at night because of the ubiquitous watchdogs, they decide to spend the night in the house. But soon the group is haunted by eerie phenomena and persecuted by the resurrected old couple, who now want to take bloody revenge on their murderers.
Paul is the first to be confronted with the apparently dead, who take brutal revenge on him and mortally injure him. The same fate happens to Tony, who is impaled by the risen Mary. In her need, Diana flees to the underground chapel, where the bodies laid out are also resurrected, and rushes to her aid. They kill Peter, like the cruel couple, while Diana faints.
When Diana comes to, she is reunited with her boyfriend Tony and Paul. The trio is content and happy, but at the same time a little confused as they had the same surreal vision in the watch collector's house before. However, the events are attributed to hallucinogenic drugs that the group previously took collectively. Nevertheless, they decide to refrain from the break-in and move away from the eerie area with their vehicle. On this very trip, the three occupants had a fatal accident when they were startled by a previously tormented cat and lost control of their car.
Reviews
" With little tension and without - for a film by Fulci - noteworthy sensational gore effects, the film babbles to itself and manages completely without atmosphere or even horror."
Web links
- The House of Clocks in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The horror watch in the online film database